Forewing length 15mm. Upper side:
Both wings dark and slightly shining purple-blue. Forewing border
sooty-grey, narrow, just a thread at tornus, gradually dilating to
2mm at apex and continuing along the costa almost up to the base.
This border sometimes appears pale grey-brown in a side light (Fig.
3B). A dark, diffused androconial discal patch, spanning from
the base of v2 to v7 and from cell-end outward for approx. 4mm.
Hindwing black tails, ending in white tips, at v1 (approx. 6mm long)
and v2 (approx. 4mm long), wing margin wavy at v3 and v4. The
abdominal fold and costal margin in space 8 dark grey-brown.
Dispersed but prominent white scalation in the submarginal
terminal area, which is condensed into submarginal white bars
in spaces 1b, 1c and 2. A tornal, large, white-crowned black spot
adjacent to the white bar in 1b. A black marginal line running
the length of the termen, and cilia FW and HW pale grey. HW
basal half and space 1c covered in ochreous, hair-like long scales,
which are especially visible in a side light.